While today's unveiling of the RadeonHD driver for the ATI R500 and R600 series is great news, this driver right now is targeted solely for developers as it's still experimental and doesn't yet support 3D acceleration and other key functionality generally needed in production environments.
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Linux users could face European patent threat
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Linux users in the UK could face a greater threat from Microsoft than previously thought, but experts agree that British open-source users are in far less danger than US users from Microsoft's claim that open-source software infringes its patents.
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Sabayon, the Gentle Gentoo
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Gentoo, formerly known as Enoch Linux is one of the pioneers among the Linux distributions. It is well-known and loved for its speed (the Gentoo species is the fastest swimming penguin), and hated for its unfriendliness with Linux newbies.
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7 Reasons Why Linux Won't Succeed On The Desktop
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The open-source operating system is destined to stay stuck in the shadow of Windows, blogger Alex Wolfe opines... AGAIN!
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A first run with IBM's free office suite
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Computer giant IBM yesterday released a free office suite for Windows and Linux machines called Lotus Symphony.
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How To Compile rTorrent From SVN In Ubuntu Feisty Fawn / Gutsy
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Torrent is a great way to transfer large files very quickly. However most torrent clients are gui based and have quite some impact on system resources (e.g. Azureus). rTorrent is a lightweight client running from the terminal.
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Ignorance (of open source), thy name is Microsoft
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Oh, my. We're back to the good old days of Microsoft mythology. I had actually believed that Microsoft had grown up and wised up.
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KateOS - Getting Better with Age
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KateOS 3.6 was released a few days ago. Since KateOS has always been one of my favorite distributions and since I haven't looked at it recently, I decided to take it for a test run on my HP Pavillion laptop.
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Xen With Graphical User Interface On A Fedora 7 Desktop
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This document describes how to set up Xen on Fedora 7. Xen enables the paravirtualization of your hardware for its virtual machines if you have a CPU with Vanderpool (Intel) or Pacifica (AMD) technology. The paravirtualization provides high performance to your virtual machines. Fedora's virt-manager provides an easy to use GUI for setting up and managing your virtual machines.
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Got game, with linux?
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A long time ago, back when i was still a common windows user, i was very serious in online gaming. In particularly a game called Star Wars Jedi Academy. Now I have long since switched to linux, which of course will not run the game natively. But just recently i wanted to get back on and play the game, and i had nothing better to do. I decided to try the first and most obvious thing, wine.
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An Idiot’s Tale of Choosing a Linux Distro
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If I am going to use Linux, I need to be able to get my work done on it without being confused. I am a very computer literate guy, but I am also a Windows guy. Linux is a different world, and quite frankly, I didn’t WANT it to be that different. If I have to open up Terminal and type anything into a command line, I’m angry.
Read more »The open-source Gold Rush (Updated)
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What's the trend? Bigger. We are in the midst of a Gold Rush, as Dana Blankenhorn has written. The rules of software business are being rewritten, and those who understand them will make a lot of money for shareholders...and themselves.
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Windows Guy Takes Ubuntu Gutsy To Work….
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I’ve been experimenting with Ubuntu (Feisty) for about the last two months. In previous posts, I’ve written how pleased I was with the easy of installation, the overall stability and the improved hardware support. It was a nice improvement over past versions of Ubuntu which always left me a bit disappointed when something we take for granted in the Windows world just flat out didn’t work.
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SCO Blames Linux For Bankruptcy Filing
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SCO Group CEO Darl McBride says competition from the open source Linux operating system was a major reason why the company was forced to file for Chapter 11 on Friday. The slump, McBride said, "has been attributable to competition from alternative operating systems, including Linux."
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Parley is the new KVocTrain
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Blue GNU interviewed Frederik Gladhorn, of the KVocTrain Project. Frederik tells us about taking over the project and about KVocTrain's name change for KDE 4.
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